How to Add Google Analytics to Joomla 1.5

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Craig Lotter

Adding Google Analytics to your Joomla 1.5 website turns out to be a rather simple affair thanks to the guys behind JoomlaGATor!, formerly known as Google Analytics Module for Joomla 1.5 (needless to say, this new title for the project is a whole lot more snappy).

Featuring a host of cool features that most of us will never use like aut0-SSL, download and external link tracking as well as sub-domain tracking, the coolest thing about JoomlaGATor! has to be the fact that in order to get is working on your site, all you literally have to do is download the install package, upload/install it to your site, enable it and then finally enter your Google Analytics tracking code in the appropriately named Analytics Account Number field.

It’s seriously that easy.

Sure there is a host of other settings you can twiddle about with, but in terms of sheer reduced time of implementation you don’t really get better than this! :)

(Oh and did I mention it automatically inserts itself into the code for each published page of your site using the ga.js tracking code?)

Related Link: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/site-analytics/3356

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About Craig Lotter

Craig Lotter is an established web developer and application programmer, with strong creative urges (which keep bursting out at the most inopportune moments) and a seemingly insatiable need to love all things animated. Living in the beautiful coastal town of Gordon's Bay in South Africa, he games, develops, takes in animated fare, trains under the Funakoshi karate style and for the most part, simply enjoys life with his amazing wife and daughter. Oh, and he draws ever now and then too.
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  • Anonymous

     Been using this and like it, but looks like developer has abandoned the project. Really wishing it was updated to use asynch script. How have you been addressing this?  The other analytics plugins/modules out there that use asynch are not as feature rich or stable as JoomlaGATor in my tests.